Joan Manuel Serrat

Biography

Spanish singer/songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat started using music as an adolescent, when he received his initial guitar. In 1960, he participated inside a pop music group, playing along to Beatles tracks and Italian pop music along with his classmates at Barcelona’s Agronomy College. In 1964, while performing inside a radio display called Radioscope, sponsor Salvador Escamilla helped him protected a record cope with the neighborhood label Edigsa, and he documented his 1st EP the next yr. Joan Manuel Serrat’s 1st live stage efficiency arrived in 1966, when he sang in the Catalan Music Palace, and his debut recording appeared twelve months after that. Immediately after, he documented the sophomore recording Cancons Tradicionals and debuted as an acting professional inside a film known as Palabras de Amor. 1969’s Dedicado a Antonio Machado, Poeta, an recording whose lyrics had been extracted from Antonio Machado’s poems, became Serrat’s biggest achievement to date, making him wide acclaim throughout Spain and Latin America. He celebrated having a South American tour, to arrive 1st place at Rio de Janeiro’s Globe Music Event after performing “Pencilélope.” The discharge of 1971’s Mediterraneo consolidated the designer world-wide. In 1976, Joan Manuel Serrat was acclaimed for the very first time within the U.S. while carrying out in LA, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, and NY. In January of 1995, the Spanish federal government provided him a medal for his contribution towards the Hispanic lifestyle. That same calendar year, a tribute record known as Serrat, Eres Unico was designed to honor his profession. In the entire year 2000, the Spanish Association of Writers and Editors (SGAE) honored him with among ten Medals from the Hundred years. Despite struggling a setback to his wellness, undergoing procedure for bladder cancers in 2004, on the following decade Serrat continuing with his profession, releasing popular information like the orchestral record Sinfónico in 2003, and in 2006 an all-Catalan record, Mô. More superstars lined up to pay for tribute to him in 2005 on Serrat, Eres Unico, Vol. 2. In 2007, he documented the record Dos Pájaros de el Tiro in cooperation with another renowned Spanish vocalist, Joaquín Sabina, and five years afterwards both teamed up once again for another record known as La Orquesta del Titanic.

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